how do I stop recursion in this example?

[Adamz Preston]

Okay, so what this program is supposed to do is to cycle through my whole system to find where minecraft.exe is. It finds the program and then launches it. This part works perfectly however because the loop is being executed by calling the method, the program doesn't stop executing once the program has been found and the loop continues to loop through the files. How do I stop this?

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;


public class processDemo {

	static boolean proc = true;
		
		public static void main(String[] args){  
	        File[] files = File.listRoots();
	        
	        for(int i =0; proc=true;i++){ 
	            parseAllFiles(files[i].getPath());
	        } 
	        
	        System.out.println("done");
	          
	    }  
	    public static void parseAllFiles(String parentDirectory){  
	        File[] filesInDirectory = new File(parentDirectory).listFiles();  
	        do{
	        if(filesInDirectory!=null){
	        for(File f : filesInDirectory){
	            if(f.isDirectory()){  
	                parseAllFiles(f.getAbsolutePath());  
	            }  
	            System.out.println(f);  
	            File f1 = new File(f.getPath()+"\\minecraft.exe");
	            if(f1.exists()){
	            	System.out.println("found it");
	            	try {
						Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(f1.getPath());
					} catch (IOException e) {
						e.printStackTrace();
					}
	            	proc=false;
	            }
	        }    
	        }
	        
	        }while(!proc);
	        
	        
	    }  
		
	}
	

[fred rosenberger]

Which loop are you talking about? I see three. what loop do you want to break out of, and when exactly do you want to break out of it?

[Adamz Preston]

fred rosenberger wrote:Which loop are you talking about? I see three. what loop do you want to break out of, and when exactly do you want to break out of it?

for(int i =0; proc=true;i++){   
                parseAllFiles(files[i].getPath());  
            }

and I want to break out of it as soon as the minecraft application has been launched..

[Greg Charles]

You're re-asking a question that was answered here: https://coderanch.com/t/606437//java/isn-program-working

Any further discussion can go there, so I'll lock this thread.